Author: Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small DebtsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts ... The twelfth edition. With "A List of ... Benefactions to the Society, etc."
Author: Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small DebtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts Throughout England and Wales
Author: James NeildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Debt, Imprisonment for
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Collation of the original: 601p. fold illus., port.
An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts
Author: Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small DebtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Debt, Imprisonment for
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts
Author: James NeildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Debt, Imprisonment for
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts ... The twelfth edition. With "A List of ... Benefactions to the Society, etc."
Author: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts. The sixth edition
Author: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Mansions of Misery
Author: Jerry WhitePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448191815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital’s most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison. In Mansions of Misery, acclaimed chronicler of the capital Jerry White introduces us to the Marshalsea’s unfortunate prisoners – rich and poor; men and women; spongers, fraudsters and innocents. We get to know the trumpeter John Grano who wined and dined with the prison governor and continued to compose music whilst other prisoners were tortured and starved to death. We meet the bare-knuckle fighter known as the Bold Smuggler, who fell on hard times after being beaten by the Chelsea Snob. And then there’s Joshua Reeve Lowe, who saved Queen Victoria from assassination in Hyde Park in 1820, but whose heroism couldn’t save him from the Marshalsea. Told through these extraordinary lives, Mansions of Misery gives us a fascinating and unforgettable cross-section of London life from the early 1700s to the 1840s.
Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Alexander WakelamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429647921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.
The First Modern Society
Author: Lawrence StonePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521364843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.
The Poverty of Disaster
Author: Tawny PaulPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496946
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Examines debt insecurity in eighteenth-century Britain, a period of famously rapid economic growth when many people nevertheless experienced financial failure.